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Peter Gasston

@petergasston.co.uk

Londoner, digital technology enthusiast, generalist, humanist, protopist, left-of-centrist, not a futurist.

127 Followers  |  61 Following  |  529 Posts  |  Joined: 05.07.2023  |  2.0705

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Give him another pay rise

08.11.2025 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Brighton have had a number of shots but largely low quality, from distance. Not as one-sided as the stats suggest.

29.10.2025 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I do think they could move the ball a little faster in the moments when they manage to pull Palace into looser formation, though. A bit too easy for them to get tight again at the moment.

26.10.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Make that 4. Feed still hasn't refreshed. It should be buzzing.

21.10.2025 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We scored three goals since my feed last refreshed. @support.bsky.team

21.10.2025 20:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Gabi at the back, Gabi in attack #Arsenal #ARSATM

21.10.2025 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Once again, @bsky.app completely useless for accompanying live sports. ~20 minute wait for feed to refresh.

21.10.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

It took Thierry Henry 18 games to score three goals for Arsenal. Not saying Gyokeres is the next Henry, just that people have unrealistic expectations and poor memories.

18.10.2025 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œAfter a five minute review of the incident from multiple angles we've decided it was a clear and obvious error from the referee.”

18.10.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sky promoting the Gary Neville Podcast during that game… what kind of sicko listens to that?!

28.09.2025 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That sound you hear is all the sports journos frantically rewriting their reports. Sorry we spoiled your narrative. #Arsenal

28.09.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Look, last post 31 minutes ago. Two goals in that time, but I can't join in the conversation. @bsky.app @support.bsky.team

28.09.2025 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@bsky.app @support.bsky.team Terrible performance for following live sports. The feed of my team took over 10 minutes to update at best, almost 30 minutes at the end of the game. Missed all the best talking points, really disappointing.

28.09.2025 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

People (rightly) bring up Her when talking about our current relationship with AI assistants, but Ex Machina deserves more attention. It raises the idea that *even if we’ve been explicitly shown that something is a machine*, we might still believe it’s conscious. Clear parallels to β€œAI psychosis”.

22.09.2025 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œMartinelli is finished, we should have sold him” β€” a genius. #Arsenal

21.09.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

More than 2.5

21.09.2025 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Don't try and divert the conversation. You said β€œobjectively bad" when you're being highly subjective.

21.09.2025 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Loool the three of them have started three games together, so your β€œobjectively bad” doesn't come from a strong pool of evidence.

21.09.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Lilya 4-ever. Unbelievably powerful, I sobbed through the second half, don't think I could ever face it again.

21.09.2025 00:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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That was fast.

16.09.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

STICK YOUR WHISTLING UP YOUR ARSES.
#ATHARS #Arsenal #ChampionsLeague

16.09.2025 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Someone run stabilising software on this ref cam, please. #ARSNFO #Arsenal

13.09.2025 12:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

At this stage of the season, at a place like this, the result is more important than the performance. #Arsenal

17.08.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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First VR of #Fortnite S6E4. Hardly a classic, but they all count.

15.08.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures is one of the best books I’ve read lately. The story of the invention of cinema and the processes of #innovation. You can listen to the audiobook, read by the ace Paterson Joseph, on BBC Sounds (free in the UK) for the next 24 days.
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15.08.2025 10:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A substantial portion of the press has lost its mind over AI. I know you can't fully expect impartial reporting from an industry which sees the technology as an existential threat, but the result is that reasonable and important critique is drowned out by hysteria.

11.08.2025 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s summer in the UK, which means it’s fruit season. If you’re able, get yourself along to your local farm shop or market and buy anything you can get your hands on. Today I bought cherries, strawberries, and greengages, delicious and fresh off the plant. To hell with your Dubai chocolate.

10.08.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

OpenAI says ChatGPT has ~500 million weekly active users. Google says Gemini has ~450 million monthly active users. And still people will tell you that LLMs are useless because they tried them once and were disappointed.

25.07.2025 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Is JSON prompting effective?Β (No.) I noticed a trend of people saying that to get better results from Google Veo you should write prompts using more complex, machine-optimised (JSON) formatting; the one that looks something like this: "shot": { "composition": "four-way split-screen (2Γ—2), full-body head-to-toe eye-level, 35 mm", "camera_motion": "static", "film_grain": 5 } That didn't seem right to me because at the core of Veo is a large language models; it comprehends natural human language, so structuring the prompt in machine readable code felt like it would make no difference at all.

There’s a trend of using a machine-readable (JSON) format for writing Veo prompts, as it supposedly provides greater control. But does it? Or is natural language better? I put it to the test.

24.07.2025 09:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’ve spent the last three months investigating how genomics can prevent and overturn miscarriages of justice - particularly in the case of mothers accused of murder. The Lab Detective, new four part podcast series from @theobserveruk.bsky.social released today. Do listen lnk.to/thelabdetect...

22.07.2025 07:55 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

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